The Frugal Investor

Faisal Fiaz Reator Is a Scammer!

Nov

12

2019

This real estate agent Faisal Fiaz in Toronto has been sued previously by the Real Estate Council of Ontario. Who resides in North York or Mississauga. He operates a slew of Airbnb properties under his mother’s name. He recently decided to scam us by doing the following: Sent us a letter that he will break ...

Meetings – Most will be complete waste of time

Jul

22

2019

As a startup founder, you will be undoubtfully dragged into many meetings with potential clients, coworkers, and others. One will come to learn most of these meetings will end up costing a lot of valuable time, for reasons listed below: The other party has just not bothered to read any material you have sent them ...

Unfair Credit Card Activation Fees – Oddities

Jul

2

2019

These will be periodically posted regarding things people don’t question or think about but things that make you wonder “why is it like that?” Today: Credit card activation fee occurs at the time when the back-office “Activates” the card. The consumer could get the credit cards months later (as was the case for me). So ...

Startup Lessons – On Not Taking Advice

Jul

2

2019

When you share with someone what you do, or want to raise funding, believe it or not everyone will have an idea as to how you should take their advice into consideration when building the company. Especially if its a consumer app/product, this is great if you haven’t done any market research yourself and do ...

Startup Lessons – What To Do Post (Pre) Seed Round

Jun

27

2019

Congrats, you have now raised a small pre-seed round (consider your self at least somewhat lucky or at least one step closer to achieving your goal) or an angel round, your stress as a start-up founder is finally over. Not a chance, the next hard steps are: Validating your product market fit or at least ...

7 Reasons To Never Host On AirBNB

Dec

1

2018

Here is what you need to know coming from someone that has managed Airbnb listings for over 2 years. TLDR; it is not worth it as a ‘side hustle’, unless if you live on-site or if you want to do it full time, Airbnb is NOT your friend. 1. If a guest smokes in your ...

Starting a internet business?

Jul

23

2018

Key requirements for consumer technology -> TPCBP T – Traffic, Can you get cheap traffic for this vertical? P – Profit, Are there offers, products, services you can sell that will compensate for traffic acq. costs? or if relying on free traffic, can a low amount of traffic generate enough profit? C – Competitors, are ...

Rogers Communications – Companies that Dupe Customers

Jul

9

2018

How Rogers Communications from Toronto Dupes it’s customers. Tactic #1 – Put everyone on a “promotional plan” rather than a “Regular Plan” Make sure to increase the price of regular plans consistantly … what can the customer do? especially if they are locked in. If the customer is on a promotional plan, and it expires, ...

Investing in Cryptographic Currencies

Dec

6

2013

A cryptocurrency is a peer-to-peer, decentralized, digital currency whose implementation relies on the principles of cryptography to validate the transactions and generation of the currency itself. Top Currencies based on market capitalization Bitcoin – $9.3b Litecoin – $1b Peercoin – $43.3m Quark – $12 million Namecoin Novacoin Primecoin Feathercoin Anoncoin – $0.14m Yacoin Mastercoin Later ...